More Greetings from the Summer of Love

Plenty of news… so many good friends and even a few members of the family have RSVP’d for the Anniversary party on the 9^th. Our son and his girlfriend are coming, cousins and their family, neighbors, dear friends from Portland and Los Angeles. There is M’s family and parents in Brasil who cannot be here yet wish they could, and there are members of my family who don’t want to be here on the day (their great loss). It should be a grand time.

Some folks have asked why we are doing this. After all, we were married and domesticated 8 years ago in a tremendous ceremony by 90 Methodist ministers who laid their hands on us. M may have his reasons, but mine are simply, “because we can”.

There are thousands of couples across the country who cannot marry, or even receive domestic partnership benefits. There are many of my friends who have passed away, who would have wished to have had the right to marry. So besides being absolutely besotted by my partner of 10 years, I want to do this for those who cannot.

So we do this for them… and will raise a glass in their memory because we can!